Overtures are a melodic heavy metal band born in Gorizia in June 2003. The … Read Full Bio ↴Overtures are a melodic heavy metal band born in Gorizia in June 2003. The line-up is composed by Michele Guaitoli (voice), Marco Falanga (guitar), Daniele Piccolo (guitar), Luka Klanjscek (bass), and Andrea Cum (drums), who replaced Marko Klanjscek, former member, in August 2007. Overtures' first concert was in September 2003.
During the summer of 2006 Overtures started to record their first full-length album “Beyond The Waterfall”, which contains eight original songs: "Beyond the waterfall", "Toy", "Faded Dream", "Town of Desolation", "Silent Observer", "The Self-Pitier", "A Time of my Life", "Hideout"; for a total length of about 40 minutes. In May 2007 Overtures signed a contract with the Italian label "Videoradio" (www.videoradio.org).
In July 2008, one year after the Italian release of the album "Beyond The Waterfall", Overtures got in touch with "Rock It Up records" (www.rockitup.org) and signed a contract with the German label for the worldwide distribution of the CD. As a consequence of the deal with "Rock It Up Records", Overtures started a set of promotional shows both in Italy and Europe, playing in different Italian cities and in Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovenia and other European countries. Songs taken from the album "Beyond The Waterfall" have been inserted in different European and Italian compilations and broadcast in many radio programs in Italy, U.S.A., Germany, England, Portugal and Brazil.
On November 13th 2009 the German label "Remedy Records" (www.remedyrecords.de) published "ReUnation - A Tribute To Running Wild", an official tribute album to the legendary German band. The album was released because of the dissolution of Running Wild and featured, among the others, also by Overtures with their version of "Pirate Song".
In October 2010 Overtures announced their passage to "Sleaszy Rider Records" (www.sleaszyrider.com), with whom they signed a new deal that links the two parts until 2013. The Greek label scheduled the release date of "Rebirth", second full-length of the band and first album with the new line-up on March 7th 2011. "Rebirth", mastered by "Mika Jussila" (Children of Bodom, Nightwish, HIM, Lordi, Edguy & altri) at "Finnvox Studios" in Helsinki, and with the artwork drew by "Michael Shindler" (Motorhead, Grave Digger, Mystic Circle, Creamtory & altri), contains the songs "Here we fall", "Fly Angel", "You can't spit on me", "Delirium", "Farewell", "Not too late", "The Prophecy", "My name is Fear", "Easy", "Daemons" and the bonus track "Not too late" in its acoustic version. As special guests on the album there are also "Rafahell" from "Elvenking" and "Akos Komodi" from "Halor". Before the release of the album Overtures also shot their first videoclip for the song "Fly, Angel".
After the release of "Rebirth" the management of the band is put in charge of agency "Extreme Agency" (www.extremeagency.org) in Italy and of the Brazilian agency "Insano Booking & Management" (www.insanobooking.com.br) worldwide. It also begins a minor deal with "Vivo Management" (www.vivomanagement.it).
Concerning the live activity, besides to promotional concerts for the album "Beyond The Waterfall" and several shows at local festivals, in 2008 Overtures also featured as opening act in some dates of Elvenking's "The Scythe tour" and, during their career, they shared the stage with the already mentioned "Elvenking" and with "Primal Fear", "Blaze Bayley", "Pino Scotto", "White Skull", "Skanners", "Vision Divine", "Extrema", "Sinestesia", "Lincoln Quartet ft. Clive Bunker" (first Jethro Tull's drummer), "Delirium", "New Trolls", "Children of the Damned ft. Paul Di Anno" (Iron Maiden's first singer), "Domine", "Tystnaden", "Beer Bong", "Eldritch", "Mr.Pig", "Raintime", "Phatosray" and many others.
During the summer of 2006 Overtures started to record their first full-length album “Beyond The Waterfall”, which contains eight original songs: "Beyond the waterfall", "Toy", "Faded Dream", "Town of Desolation", "Silent Observer", "The Self-Pitier", "A Time of my Life", "Hideout"; for a total length of about 40 minutes. In May 2007 Overtures signed a contract with the Italian label "Videoradio" (www.videoradio.org).
In July 2008, one year after the Italian release of the album "Beyond The Waterfall", Overtures got in touch with "Rock It Up records" (www.rockitup.org) and signed a contract with the German label for the worldwide distribution of the CD. As a consequence of the deal with "Rock It Up Records", Overtures started a set of promotional shows both in Italy and Europe, playing in different Italian cities and in Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovenia and other European countries. Songs taken from the album "Beyond The Waterfall" have been inserted in different European and Italian compilations and broadcast in many radio programs in Italy, U.S.A., Germany, England, Portugal and Brazil.
On November 13th 2009 the German label "Remedy Records" (www.remedyrecords.de) published "ReUnation - A Tribute To Running Wild", an official tribute album to the legendary German band. The album was released because of the dissolution of Running Wild and featured, among the others, also by Overtures with their version of "Pirate Song".
In October 2010 Overtures announced their passage to "Sleaszy Rider Records" (www.sleaszyrider.com), with whom they signed a new deal that links the two parts until 2013. The Greek label scheduled the release date of "Rebirth", second full-length of the band and first album with the new line-up on March 7th 2011. "Rebirth", mastered by "Mika Jussila" (Children of Bodom, Nightwish, HIM, Lordi, Edguy & altri) at "Finnvox Studios" in Helsinki, and with the artwork drew by "Michael Shindler" (Motorhead, Grave Digger, Mystic Circle, Creamtory & altri), contains the songs "Here we fall", "Fly Angel", "You can't spit on me", "Delirium", "Farewell", "Not too late", "The Prophecy", "My name is Fear", "Easy", "Daemons" and the bonus track "Not too late" in its acoustic version. As special guests on the album there are also "Rafahell" from "Elvenking" and "Akos Komodi" from "Halor". Before the release of the album Overtures also shot their first videoclip for the song "Fly, Angel".
After the release of "Rebirth" the management of the band is put in charge of agency "Extreme Agency" (www.extremeagency.org) in Italy and of the Brazilian agency "Insano Booking & Management" (www.insanobooking.com.br) worldwide. It also begins a minor deal with "Vivo Management" (www.vivomanagement.it).
Concerning the live activity, besides to promotional concerts for the album "Beyond The Waterfall" and several shows at local festivals, in 2008 Overtures also featured as opening act in some dates of Elvenking's "The Scythe tour" and, during their career, they shared the stage with the already mentioned "Elvenking" and with "Primal Fear", "Blaze Bayley", "Pino Scotto", "White Skull", "Skanners", "Vision Divine", "Extrema", "Sinestesia", "Lincoln Quartet ft. Clive Bunker" (first Jethro Tull's drummer), "Delirium", "New Trolls", "Children of the Damned ft. Paul Di Anno" (Iron Maiden's first singer), "Domine", "Tystnaden", "Beer Bong", "Eldritch", "Mr.Pig", "Raintime", "Phatosray" and many others.
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Overtures Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Overtures:
Artifacts Hatred, indifference and distance: we create and destroy lea…
Consequences Constantly living a fight between truth and lies hiding you…
Empty Trails I had to go one out of two ways which both…
My refuge It is fascinating, a bit scary this dark gift for…
Not too late Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time. There's…
Of Nightmares Have you ever tasted something wrong in what you see? Like…
Repentance Once you used pain as answer for your pain, same you…
Savior Lost in a world of confusion, where pain and lies allied…
The Maze In every way I look I can only see the…
Under the northern star Cold, cold dawn in this winter day, slowly leaves fall on…
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@Biggus Sorry I did not see your comment sooner - been slumped with school recently!
That's an excellent choice! Learning Icelandic opens up so many avenues for old dialect and opens up a whole world of truly immersive culture, and literature. Books like "The Prose Edda" is one of the first that comes to my mind . . . But I would not start there. I would recommend starting out with some of Jackson Crawford's works - namely "Asatru: A Beginner’s Guide to the Heathen", and "Pocket Study Havamal: Old Norse - 3 English Translations." The first is a good place to start as you will begin to learn how to differentiate different text/characters, but if you want to just jump right into Islandic - I wouldn't blame you! Lol - the second book I suggested is excellent for all and any level of expertise in philology. Both are quite affordable, especially if you have an Amazon Prime subscription.
I also understand that reading guides are not some people's forte when learning new languages, so I would also suggest checking out Crawford's YouTube channel, there's tons of readily available information about pretty much everything there - it is where I started initially.
Aside from him though, obviously being immersed into a culture is the best way to learn any new language. There is a bunch of music on YouTube that can definitely help; you have to do some deciphering as I did previously, but the more you learn, and the more you do it, the more you pick up and begin to start understanding as well. To help out with this a bit I would also recommend picking up A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic - there are several different versions available, but they can get pricy if it's outside your budget.
Another tip I have is that other more known/easier modern languages are pretty closely related; Icelandic is the official language of the Republic of Iceland (as you may already know). As one of the Nordic languages, it belongs to the Germanic language family. If you speak German, Norwegian, or Faeroese, you’ll have an edge in mastering Icelandic faster, since Icelandic is closely related to these languages. Some knowledge of a Scandinavian language is also a plus.
For me, learning some common phrases always helps with understanding how words sound together in the alphabet - in fact, you might already know a few like "Góðan daginn - Good day." A lot of the words have kinda ugly deep sounds to them, and you gotta use your throat a bit more, except for the "s" sounding words which are a bit softer. Actually, modern Icelanders can read ancient Icelandic text without too much effort as the language has been well-preserved over the last millennium. One could say that the “Viking language” is still here today! Lol. So even just listening to Islandic language, in general, could really help you out.
Anyway, I know that's a lot but if you have any questions feel free to ask!
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@Simä Huhala I hate to be this person, but it’s actually a mix of Old Norse and Islandic:
Útlægðr is an ancient Nordic word that means “exiled”. “Guð” = “God” .
Smán is an ancient Nordic word for “shame/humiliation”. “Faðir/Föður” = “father/father’s”.
“Von” means “hope”.
“Móðir/móður” = “Mother/mother’s”
The modern translation of the word “Þraut” would be “puzzle” but in this context, it’s more of a “challenge” than a puzzle.“Þraut” can mean, puzzle, challenge , and even “course”. In this case, it kind of uses all of these meanings in one word, which IS possible in ancient Nordic/Icelandic.
“Barn/barnsins” = “Child/Child’s”
So basically:
“Exiled God.
Shame of a Father .
Mother’s hope.
Child’s challenge”
Or:
“God That Has Been Exiled.
Father’s Shame.
Hope of the Mother.
Challenge for the Child”
Þraut Hatrs síns-Task of his hate(like something he has to deal with, anger issues)
Stríðssonur- Warriors Son
söngleik sannleiks- Song/Musical of Truth
hundsvíður- Burns(alot)/Scorches
Þrælför hans- Difficult journey( an incredible difficult one)
útrækur/lægur-Banished
smán haturs-Hate's shame
bergsholdið-Stone skin( properly Kratos grey skin)
hundsvíður- Burns(alot)/scorches
helför þín bíiðuur- Your Hellish trip awaits
Mun smán hans (ég sinni fer)- will his shame (not sure about the rest what i know would be: I _ go
Þurs drengur sem að er hans- Giants boy that is his
Húsbændur útlægan eeer- Master exiled is(this one is also kinda wonky)
Þursdrengur sem að er hans- Giants boy that is his
Hann mun fara til himmnanna- He will go into heaven (could be forshadowing Kratos dying or his son transcending into godhood)
Útrækur- Banished
Smán föðurs- Father's shame/sin
Von móður- Mother's Hope
Þraut Hatrs síns-Task of his hate(like something he has to deal with, anger issues)
Útlægur- Banished
Smán haturs- Shame of Hate
Þurs drengur sem að er hans- Giants boy that is his
Öll skömmin hún svíður hann- All the shame burns him
Hann þráir smá „værð og frið,“ een svíður- he desires only little peace and quiet, but burns
Húsbændur ég enga hef- No Master have I
Hundsvíður- Burns(alot)/Scorch
Helför bíður- Hellish Trip awaits
Edit: I missed:
Blóðs bölvun
Ég hef enga aflausn
“Blóðs” = Blood’s
“Bölvun” Curse
Curse of his bloodline, because he is a god.
“Ég hef enga aflausn” = I have no absolution"
He has a curse on him and he will never be forgiven/given absolution, for the sins/crimes he has committed, or for just merely being a god, maybe even both.
There might be a couple spelling mistakes, but I’m 90% sure I’ve translated it properly. I also did that myself as I learned a good bit of both old norse and islandic over the past couple years.
Bear McCreary also had this to say about his composition: “I researched Nordic folk music -- the way it sounds,” says McCreary. “I wanted to communicate something authentic. Rather than using traditional choirs recorded in London or Los Angeles, we went to Iceland. That’s as immersed as I can get into the world of God of War -- going onto these glaciers and experiencing it.”
There was a more concrete reason for the trip, too. There’s text in the game that a scholar translated into Old Norse, a dialect that doesn't exist today, but is closest among current languages to Icelandic. “What this meant was that by recording with an Icelandic choir, they could read the text and it would be pronounced correctly,” says McCreary. “This gave us an incredible edge.”
As you can tell, I’m a huge GoW fan lol!
Solar
This is so emotional, I can feel all the kratos history in this music. And even better when you know the lyrics.
Archimede
This song is really the story of Kratos and Atreus
*gasp*
"He needs a father, not a god" really hits
PantakesVGP
This version of the song is much better than the final official version. Especially the female voice at the 2:27 point, is a great part of this, and is for some reason removed in the official version.
Stephen Walker-Emflorgo
@Brent know as throat singing.
Bruh
I love this version so much more than the final one, in the final stretch, in 3:35 especifically, the high pitch is so good, it makes the whole song for me
Brent
What female voice? Am I missing something here, or do you really refer to those weird background noises.
marcelo felipe
the female voice call EIVOR
Lesser mooK
@Prabh Sandhu Don't know about that, but it definitely helped the pacing.
Cause she shows up the songs kind of halts tempo, it was a flow/pacing problem.
Pauli 5634
Bear Mccreary made two masterpieces for two gods.
Kratos and Godzilla